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Bush Lashes Back at Kennedy’s Criticism
2003-09-22
President Bush on Sunday described as "uncivil" Sen. Edward Kennedy’s critical remarks of the administration’s policies in Iraq. Kennedy said last week the case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud "made up in Texas" to give Republicans a political boost. The longtime senator also alleged that the money for the war is being used to bribe foreign leaders to send troops.
Instead of being used to bribe union leaders and leftist twits at home!
In an exclusive Oval Office interview with Fox News’ Brit Hume, Bush said that while he respected Kennedy, the senator "should not have said we were trying to bribe foreign nations." "I don’t mind people trying to pick apart my policies, and that’s fine and that’s fair game," Bush said in the interview that will air Monday night. "But, you know, I don’t think we’re serving our nation well by allowing the discourse to become so uncivil that people say - use words that they shouldn’t be using." Kennedy’s comments, part of the drumbeat of criticism Bush has received lately from Democrats, were described as a "new low" by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Kennedy dismissed DeLay’s comments, saying that once again GOP leaders are avoiding questions about Bush’s policies "by attacking the patriotism of those who question them."
He didn’t question your patriotism, only your ethnics and decency.
Kennedy, D-Boone’s Farm Mass., elaborated on his foolish comments in an interview on CNN Friday, saying the administration is announcing an $8.5 billion loan to Turkey, and that country will then provide military assistance in Iraq.
As I recall, JFK also did some horse-trading in his day.
"It didn’t have to be this way," he said. "We wouldn’t have to be providing these billions of dollars to these countries to ... coerce them or bribe them to send their troops in, if we’d done it the right way, if we’d gone to the United Nations, if we had built an international constituency."
If you would have pulled yer head out of the bottle for a while, Teddie, you’d have seen that Bush did go to the UN and did try to build an international consensus. Remember why it failed? We do.
Posted by:Steve White

#20  Kennedy's remark about Iraq was Bush's vietnam is funny, it took the Army's 3rd Divison and the Marines less time to destroy the Medina Repulican guard, than it took kennedy to call about his oldsmobile at chapaquidick!!!
Posted by: Anonymous4085   2004-04-08 12:21:14 AM  

#19  Now Paul, You know that site is nothing more than a ‘Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’! Shame on you for spreading the truth lies about Senator Kennedy and smearing his family name. The Kennedy’s have never worked hard to get where they are today! Why what other family has provided more drunks legislators for the country? As an American of Irish extraction, I cannot for the life of me understand what the draw is? Ok they’re rich and one was President, BFD! When did congress become a welfare system for underprivileged Kennedy children? Why do people on the east coast still elect them to office? Has any of them has a unique idea, sponsored any good legislation, or made a difference? That is why the murderer Senator Lush Puppy Kennedy can make stupid remarks and not get thrown out of office.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2003-9-22 6:33:18 PM  

#18   Mary >>> Great link! NMM should go to it and then come back and explain it all away like all the other left wing loonies try to do. It would provide Rantburgers hours of entertainment.
Posted by: Paul   2003-9-22 5:36:47 PM  

#17  www.ytedk.com
Posted by: Mary Jo Kopechne   2003-9-22 3:48:57 PM  

#16  Ted bitching about anything involving too much government spending is like an alky bitching that he get's too much booze.
Posted by: tu3031   2003-9-22 3:29:34 PM  

#15  ..giving what their marionettes are spouting on Faux News, talk radio, etc.

Now that IS a joke. Next, you'll be talking about the "conservative media".

Haaahahahahaha.....
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-9-22 3:08:42 PM  

#14  OK, maybe Senator Kennedy should have just called it a quid pro quo instead of a bribe! But for the rightwing to be whining about a lack of civility, giving what their marionettes are spouting on Faux News, talk radio, etc. is beyond amusing -- BWAHAAHAA! Gimme a break!
Posted by: Not Mike Moore   2003-9-22 2:18:08 PM  

#13  Badanov- operations in Iraq are done. The President told me so that night he landed on that big aircraft carrier.
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-9-22 1:40:28 PM  

#12  Massachusetts keeps electing this guy. They know he's guilty of Kopicny's death. But he's a lovable rogue. He's a rich prick. Just like my senator, Patty Murrey, who thought osama was building day care centers for the Afganies.
Posted by: Lucky   2003-9-22 1:26:46 PM  

#11   He knows very well when to stop at water's edge... when he should dive and save someone from drowning.

Maybe he has a fear of a lack of buoyancy.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-9-22 1:10:12 PM  

#10  He knows very well when to stop at water's edge... when he should dive and save someone from drowning.
Posted by: JFM   2003-9-22 12:52:58 PM  

#9  Quite true, Ship man. He's proven to being unable to stop at any waters' edge...
Posted by: Ptah   2003-9-22 12:38:27 PM  

#8  Used to be that politics stopped at the waters' edge

This is Ted Kennedy
Posted by: Shipman   2003-9-22 12:01:00 PM  

#7  Oh, yeah, now the drivel again about our "bribing" countries. Ted that one is out of p. 23 of your Feb. 2003 playbook.
Posted by: Michael   2003-9-22 11:29:54 AM  

#6  Kennedy’s comments, part of the drumbeat of criticism Bush has received lately from Democrats...

Drums...drums in the deep...
Posted by: mojo   2003-9-22 10:59:59 AM  

#5  "It didn’t have to be this way," he said. "We wouldn’t have to be providing these billions of dollars to these countries to ... coerce them or bribe them to send their troops in, if we’d done it the right way, if we’d gone to the United Nations, if we had built an international constituency."

News flash: The United Nations is ineffective, Teddy. Get your head out of your ass and take notice of the world as it really is.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-9-22 10:26:39 AM  

#4  Ted Kennedy, son of a dealer in illegal drugs and open supporter of Adolph Hitler. Guess that's where he learned his character and morals.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins   2003-9-22 8:55:00 AM  

#3  Frank G >> Pffffst. This Bud's for you.

The Freak Show that is the Kennedy family, never ceases to amaze me. The whole family whose vast fortune is due to illegal bootlegging.

Ted alone holds legacy to the whole Chapaquidick affair (cowardly bastard who escaped justice), then he was the Daddy of the fiasco that are HMO's. Now this. Ass! The Kennedy's represent everything that's bad about America. Wasteful, arrogant, bureaucratic, unethical, crooks.

Next to Jane "Hanoi" Fonda's death, he's the next one I can't wait to see go.
Posted by: Paul   2003-9-22 8:39:00 AM  

#2  Used to be that politics stopped at the waters' edge - at least that was what politicians pretended. The Dems are so hateful of Bush and desperate to win that they aren't even bothering to pretend anymore. Disgusting that a fat drunk loudmouth like Kennedy is a Senator, but we don't have to pretend that he's coherent, patriotic or interested in anything other than his own hubris and power. I put him in the traitor category too.
Posted by: Frank G   2003-9-22 7:19:02 AM  

#1  Maybe calling Kennedy unpatriotic isn't the right thing to do. Maybe calling him a traitor is more accurate. After all, we still have troops fighting this war. I think Kennedy should hold his criticism of oeprations in Iraq until they are done. Right now, he just sounds like a traitor to me.
Posted by: badanov   2003-9-22 7:13:40 AM  

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